Talking Flora
In connection with its current exhibition, "Greenhouse," which features paintings that celebrate flowers, the Grenning Gallery in Sag Harbor will host a discussion with local artists and plant experts on Sunday at noon.
Participants include Matthew DiVittorio, a landscape architect; Lilee Fell, a Sag Harbor florist, and Edwina Lucas and Maryann Lucas, whose work is included in the exhibition.
Paul Thek to Pace
The Watermill Center has announced a new partnership with the Pace Gallery and the Estate of Paul Thek, an artist and close friend and collaborator of Robert Wilson, the center's founder. Thek left his estate to the care of Mr. Wilson in 1988.
Noah Khoshbin, the center's curator, said, "Estate executor Robert Wilson and I feel strongly that Pace Gallery, along with our other partners, not only will be the best stewards of Paul's legacy, but will be a collective catalyst expanding Paul's vision into the future."
Mad Man in the Studio
Jim Durfee, a former advertising executive who in 1997 was inducted into the Creative Hall of Fame of the One Club for Creativity, has spent the last 25 years painting in his studio in Sag Harbor.
An exhibition of his work will open on Sunday, at the John Jermain Memorial Library there, with a reception from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. Mr. Durfee studied at the Art Students League, and his work is painterly, according to Susan Blumenkrantz, the library's art curator, who praised "his color palate as well as his brushwork and sense of light."
Krasner's Geometry
"Lee Krasner: The Edge of Color, Geometric Abstractions 1948-53" is opening at the Kasmin Gallery on West 27th Street in Chelsea next Thursday, and will remain on view through March 28. The exhibition is the first dedicated to a chapter in the artist's career that emphasized geometric relationships.
Also next Thursday, at its 10th Avenue location, the gallery will open "Tide Pool." Fifteen noted artists, whose work is abstracted from natural forms and phenomena, are represented, including artists associated with the East End such as Mary Abbott, Nell Blaine, Jimmy Ernst, Jane Freilicher, Grace Hartigan, Elaine de Kooning, Robert Motherwell, Fairfield Porter, Hedda Sterne, and Athos Zacharias. It will run through March 30.
Receptions for both shows will be held next Thursday from 6 to 8 p.m.
Stains and Scrapes
"Dan Christensen: Calligraphic Stains and Scrapes (Paintings From 1977 to 1984)" is at the Berry Campbell Gallery in Chelsea through March 9.
Throughout his career, Christensen was interested in applying water-based paint emulsions with nontraditional tools. "In the 'Stain' paintings, he poured paint, often in layers, into the weave of unstretched canvases laid on the floor," according to Lisa Peters, an art historian. "The 'calligraphic' aspect of these works was created by applying paint with sticks, brushes, and turkey basters, that create armatures or 'tree-like' drawing along the work’s surface."
Salle on Paper
"David Salle: Works on Paper," which includes the first presentation of figural paintings executed in 2023, is at the Edward Hopper Museum and Study Center in Nyack, N.Y., through April 28.
"I was schooled in classical painting at a young age," Mr. Salle has written, "and Hopper's work was then, and remains, a touchstone for how to translate the visual world into paintable forms."
